The Clifton clarion., 1887-08-17
"IN THE SADDLE.,' A Cowboys Criticism Upon a Pro fasSOr's Hints al Riding.

lessor = Hints al Riding.
 A short time since there was
 published Tn the Call an interview
 between one of its correspondents
 and Professor Carl Nyegaard, a
 well-known riding-master of New
 York.
 H. c. Skeggs of Miners Delight,
 Fremont County, Wyoming Ter
 ritory, cowboy, sends the Call
 the following criticism on the pro
 fessor's expressed views. Says the cowboy:
 I have just been reading "In the
 Saddle" in the Call of the 7th of
 July, and would like to give my
 opinion on some of those hints about riding. I have wrangled
 horses for sixteen years, part of the time pounding cayuses on the back from Washington Territory and Oregon to the States, and l ought, providing I am not na- tural-born idiot, to know some thing about "close-pinning" horse. Now, your correspondent says: The English are undoubt- edly the best riders in the world" Yes, I've seen lem. They are the gentlemen that ride on the gallop while their horses are on the trot; toes stuck out; rising till you could see more landscape between them and the saddle than you could paint, and their coat tails flaming the back of their necks at every bounce. Yes, they are undoubt- edly better riders than the cow boys of the Territories, the South African whites, the Gauchos or the Australians. Why, l have seen an English rider perform the difficult feat of falling off gentle horse and pulling the horse over on top of him. He said his horse stepped in a badger hole. but lkIow he warned. It was his natural modesty made him say so. As far as rising in the saddle is concern ed, Sit will do for pleasure riding, but for eighteen or twenty hours riding without rest, as we often have to do, this dude style of rid ing gets monotonous.
 Now, he gives few hints about teaching a pupil, but that's all bosh. The way to teach a boy is to put a wild bunch of horses in the corral, rope, or, as you would say, lasso out a good, nervy, four year-old gelding, throw and blind | him. slap the saddle on and put a hackamore on his head-no bridle, let the tenderfoot | mount. While the horse is still blinded let the rider stick one spur in the horses neck and the other in his flank, raise the blind and holloa 'scatI Of course the horse will throw him, but when ne climbs on again he will hang like grim death"
 I don't say but what the profes- sor is right on most of what he says, but about the English riders, doesn't he know that not more than one in fifty can ride at all? If he has ever been on an English hunt ing field he has seen these riders climbing into the saddle like so rany old women with one man holding the off stirrup and another holding the horse. That's fact. If he was on the COW ranges here he would find plenty of English men who have fox hunted in the old country, and I have noticed that they are rarely the top hands in handling bad horses or for gen eral work in the saddle.
 He also says that man cannot fall out of a Mexican saddle. Well, now, if the rooster was here I'd | pet him two good rawhides. that are hanging on the fence and the chance of eight head of horses that got away from me last winter, against anything he wanted to put lp, that I can rustic him up a whole lot of horses that can make Jim leave the Mexican saddle so .uick that he wouldn't have time o holloa fire"
 He says rider must watch his lorse. I knew fellow named Buck Taylor. He was on night lerd, riding lazy horse; the stock tampeded and he started after hem: he did not watch his horse I